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Alleged internal sgi memo about the decline of IRIX quality (art.net)
4 points by marcodiego on Feb 10, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Gem: "IRIX went up from 4.8 megabytes to 8.1 megabytes, and has a memory leak that causes it to grow. Within a week, my newly-booted 5.1 IRIX was larger than 13.8 megabytes -- a big chunk of a 16 megabyte system. It's wrong to require our users to reboot every week."


The whole thing has alot of great quips: "Just before 5.1 MR, someone reran my tests and discovered that the performance had gotten even worse. Some effort was expended to tune the software so that instead of being intolerable, it was back to merely unacceptable performance."




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